The Story of Cuba

“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon

11 pages in this part of The Story of Cuba.

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon

Was the Famous Compact that Closed the Ten Years' War Fairly Drawn and Honorably Executed, or a Sham with Nothing for Cuba in it?--The Side…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Spain--his

We have given the Cuban indictment of Spain on this subject, not in detail but in substance and full force, and that there may be fair…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Constitution

The Constitution of 1876 was promulgated in the island of Cuba on the 7th day of April, 1881. All public liberties and all the rights of…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Cubans

The disqualification of the Cubans to hold public office is purely a myth. Such disqualification is founded on the text of no law or…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Habana

In conclusion, I will relate a fact which may appear to be a joke, but which, in a certain way, furnished proof of what I have just said…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Spain

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Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Island

We have from the Spanish minister, and state the origin of the paper that there may be no question of authority, a translation of the…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Island-March

ALFONSO III., by the grace of God, and by the Constitution, King of Spain; and, in his name, and during his minority, the Queen Regent of…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Council

The provincial law shall also be modified in all such points as this "basis" shall designate as coming within the jurisdiction of the…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Whenever

Whenever the council may deem it expedient it may summon to its de liberations, through the medium of the governor-general, the heads of…

Spanish Story of the Treaty of Zanjon: Autonomist

The Liberal Autonomist party having always condemned revolutionary steps must now condemn, and does so condemn, with a better reason for it…

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